# Dave Mathews Band 24/7? Are you f'n kidding me? (Dallas) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477 "2009-04-27T09:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/21 "2009-04-27T14:40:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > No it is not stupid. It is stunting. OK it is stupid but effective. It gets people talking about what is going on with the station and they’ll be curious until they find out what the new format is. It also gives them time to fire everyone and bring in the new crew. I dunno…I can barely make it through the Friday Featured Artist, which does a few songs within each hour (unless it’s truly a favorite, like Bowie or Pink Floyd or something). I would stop listening if it was All “Anyone” All The Time. I suppose it works though, or they wouldn’t be doing it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/22 "2009-04-27T14:48:24Z")
24 hours of DMB? Why that has to be at least 3 live guitar/sax jams from one of his concerts. Are they switching to some sort of adult alternative singer/songwriter jam-band format or something? Meh…at least it’s not emo post-punk new wave revival indie rock. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/23 "2009-04-27T14:48:55Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > I dunno…I can barely make it through the Friday Featured Artist, which does a few songs within each hour (unless it’s truly a favorite, like Bowie or Pink Floyd or something). I would stop listening if it was All “Anyone” All The Time. I suppose it works though, or they wouldn’t be doing it. They don’t expect everyone to listen to it all. They do want you to be curious and remember to find out what they are doing. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/24 "2009-04-27T14:58:14Z")
> [@Yossarian](#): > > I’m still pissed about 97.9 KZEW! And then when Q102 disappeared, I left Dallas never to return… > > So who died this time? Has 92.5 KZPS finally passed away? The station I’m talking about didn’t come on air until much latter after you moved. (I assume) It was 93.3 “The Bone” They’re like 92.5 “Classic rock” except they target for the next generation down. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/25 "2009-04-27T14:59:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I tried to steer clear of him in the parking lot - I was always afraid that he was going to crash into me. _snerk_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/26 "2009-04-27T15:50:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > No it is not stupid. It is stunting. OK it is stupid but effective. It gets people talking about what is going on with the station and they’ll be curious until they find out what the new format is. If they wanted to get people talking about what’s going on, they could broadcast fart noises 24/7. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/27 "2009-04-27T15:59:28Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > The station I’m talking about didn’t come on air until much latter after you moved. (I assume) It was 93.3 “The Bone” > > They’re like 92.5 “Classic rock” except they target for the next generation down. Not the bone ☹ Guess I’ll have to change my presets when I go home for the summer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/28 "2009-04-27T17:46:41Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > If they wanted to get people talking about what’s going on, they could broadcast fart noises 24/7. Not nearly as bad as Dave Mathews. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/29 "2009-04-27T20:20:57Z")
Damn, that’s stupid. DMB used to play at a club called Trax (which sadly no longer exists, building torn down) every Tuesday night in Charlottesville Va. I saw them probably a dozen times, the most amusing part to me was how the college kids would hop up and down to the music. I didn’t really see the appeal. The DMB is one of those bands that I think are great guys and great musicians, but I don’t really like the music. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/30 "2009-04-27T20:28:52Z")
I’ve never liked DMB, but I actually had no idea that they were thought of generally as a kind of frat-rock band. (Or frat-folk-rock? I don’t know what they are.) But asking around with a couple of my friends, I see that, yes, they are associated with the frat crowd, and apparently always have been! How this escaped me, I don’t know. Is it something about their music, or is this association just an accident of history? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/31 "2009-04-27T20:37:00Z")
When I make my first billion I’m gonna buy a major big-city radio station and play L7’s “Riding with a Movie Star” over and over and over, on a loop, no commercials, 24/7. Forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/32 "2009-04-27T21:38:16Z")
Sorry guys, but the Bone had the handwriting on the wall for a while. While KZPS was in a transitional period and the Bone took Bo and Jim from them, they were serious competition, but after Bo and Jim went back to 92.5 the Bone wasn’t long for the world. There just isn’t that much market for classic rock in a town increasingly going country. KLUV(98.7) was getting into the classic rock market too as the music aged. KDGE is getting more and more listenable(except their morning show, god what a bunch of Howard Stern wanna-be’s) and they play a pretty good variety including classic rock, especially from bands still active like U2. KDMX has moved away from all soft to mostly soft and they were competing too. What may really have killed them(and this is embarassing) is KJKK(Jack FM). KDBN(the bone) was an independent and they just didn’t have the money to compete with Clear Channel(KZPS, KDMX, KDGE) or Infiniti(KJKK). When KDBN first came out, yea they were pretty good. But they lost it somewhere along the way, and KZPS and KJKK were there to pick the Bone clean. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/33 "2009-04-27T23:01:10Z")
::casts worried looks skyward:: One of the seals has broken! ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/34 "2009-04-27T23:13:48Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > The station I’m talking about didn’t come on air until much latter after you moved. (I assume) It was 93.3 “The Bone” > > They’re like 92.5 “Classic rock” except they target for the next generation down. Actually, I left the Dallas area sometime after the demise of KZEW, but before Q102 went kaput. The end of KZEW was hearalded in November-December 1987 or 1988 when the made an abrupt switch to 24/7 Christmas music! I think when the new year came, they had gone top 40. It didn’t matter; they were erased as my #1 preset and Q102 moved up a spot. I left in 1992, but still looked forward to Q102 when I drove back through DFW, and then one day drove back and found that they, too, had gone top 40… From the sounds of things it seems that “The Bone” was another independent like the Zoo and Q102 that was destroyed by Clear Channel (although I admit KZPS was my #3 preset… after they stoped that Rock during the day/Fusion Jazz in the afternoon bullshit they used to do.) Fuck it. I live in a lousy radio market, listen exclusively to Sirius-XM, and no longer have to constantly search for stations when I travel or worry that the cool station I found last time I passed through City X has also given up the ghost. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/35 "2009-04-27T23:23:27Z")
Is there an area left that ISN’T a lousy radio market? (I also listen to Sirius exclusively.) ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/36 "2009-04-27T23:44:17Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Is there an area left that ISN’T a lousy radio market? > > (I also listen to Sirius exclusively.) But you are missing out on the morning zoo prank phone calls. Then there is drunk dialing and pedi cab confessions. Scout you know you want to hear about the antics of people in the gas lamp going to clubs. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/37 "2009-04-28T01:03:27Z")
When I lived in Farmington New Mexico the local alt-rock station played, REM ‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It’ in order to basically threaten people to listen otherwise they’d change into just another country or lite rock station, I can’t remmeber which. Meanwhile K-Rock turned into another top 40 pop station in New York. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/38 "2009-04-28T04:24:54Z")
In my college shithole apartment in the summer of 1995 we had _Under the Table and Dreaming_ on repeat for a week straight. My musical tastes have definitely moved on, but I’ll always have a soft spot for that album and _Crash_ as the soundtrack of a couple of great years. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/39 "2009-04-28T04:37:19Z")
Man, those 2 mediocre songs of his are gonna get pretty stale after the first day or so. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dave-mathews-band-24-7-are-you-fn-kidding-me-dallas/494477/40 "2009-04-28T09:03:18Z")
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